BREAKING: I Have Not Resigned, Says Suspended CJN Onnoghen

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, who turned into suspended via President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday, has debunked the rumour gaining traction on line on Monday that he has resigned.

Onnoghen, whom President Muhammadu Buhari changed with the subsequent maximum senior Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Tanko Mohammed, as Acting CJN, debunked the rumour in a assertion on Monday.

The statement was signed by way of his media aide, Awassam Bassey, who described the CJN’s rumoured resignation as “faux news circulated by using mischief makers.”

“Mischief makers are nevertheless circulating this fake information. Once again, no truth in it whatsoever. The Hon CJN, Hon Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, GCON, has not resigned,” Bassey said.

The rumour got here much less than 24 hours to the emergency meeting summoned through the National Judicial Council to planned on Onnoghen’s suspension and Muhammad’s emergence as the Acting CJN.

The Buhari management has due to the fact that Friday, come beneath scathing and large complaint regionally and from the international network for being ill-timed, coming within the eve of the upcoming preferred elections.